My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

OpenOffice.org (OOo) documents are ZIP archives containing several XML files. Therefore it is easy to inspect, create, or modify OOo documents. OOoPy is a library in Python for these tasks with OOo ...

In my last few posts about pyuno (SSConverter, OORunner) we used pyuno to convert spreadsheets to CSV files by running OpenOffice from Python using pyuno as the bridge between the two processes. In ...

The APSO plugin https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/apso-alternative-script-organizer-for-python is strongly recommended. It allows the user to open ...

The open source community has taken a further step towards challenging Microsoft’s Office productivity dominance on price and standards with the release of OpenOffice 2.0, reports The Register.

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source ...

A group of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new standard to handle desktop application documents. Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured ...